Candy Land

Sugar highs from around the world

Traffic jams can be a good thing: During a recent snail?s-pace crawl on South Santa Monica Boulevard, we discovered Sugarfina, a new sweets boutique with 140 international candy brands, a third of which can?t be found anywhere else in the U.S.

After swerving into a parking spot, we investigated. The Tiffany-blue-lacquered box of a shop is a geography lesson for the sweet-toothed set: German gummy mangoes and apple frogs, fire-engine-red licorice sticks from Finland and sugar flowers inspired by Japan?s sakura blossoms.